Join Mayor Muriel Bowser and the Mayor’s Office on African Affairs (MOAA) at the Black History Month celebration themed “Conversations, Community & ConneXions”. The event will be held on Wednesday, February 17, 2016 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm at the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
The program will feature a screening of Diaspora in Dialogue: A Profile of Africans in the District of Columbia, a film produced by the Mayor’s Office on African Affairs, in partnership with the Office of Motion Television Picture Development and the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities. Aimed at shining a spotlight on the growing diversity of African immigrants, this film captures personal accounts of six individuals from diverse backgrounds and represent the cultural diversity of the Africans community residing in the District of Columbia.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion reflecting on the historical and contemporary ties between African and African-American communities, and a focus on the opportunities created for immigrant communities through the persistent advocacy of the civil rights movement.
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